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Sheinbaum Announces Candidacy, Nuptials

PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum made two announcements regarding her future on Wednesday, Nov. 23. In the morning, she confirmed her engagement to National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) physics scientist Jesús María Tarriba Unger. Sheinbaum did not provide a date for the nuptials, but did provide some insight into how her relationship with Tarriba Ungar had

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AMLO’s Electoral March to Be Met with Peaceful Protest for the INE

By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to promote his Nov. 27 Mexico City march in favor of the his controversial electoral reform, opponents of AMLO’s proposed changes to Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) – who already showed up in an estimated 500,000-plus strong turnout at the Nov. 13 Mexico City

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López Obrador Floats Potential Pivot to ‘Plan B’ Electoral Reform

By KELIN DILLON Following the fallout from Sunday, Nov. 13’s March for Democracy in Mexico City, which saw hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens show up in support of the autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) against the constitutional electoral reforms proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), López Obrador has now shifted his approach accordingly and

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INE March Sparks International Support, Much to AMLO’s Chagrin

OPINION By KELIN DILLON After hundreds of thousands of people marched the streets of Mexico City on Sunday, Nov. 13,  in protest of constitutional reforms proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization, the National Electoral Institute (INE), the impact of the massive citizen turnout has reverberated throughout the country and across the world

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A Very Justified Fear

OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER They say that fear and anger are the two most effective motivators in mobilizing a society electorally. What the people of Mexico witnessed in terms of the government’s reaction to the massive Sunday, Nov. 13, citizens’ March for Democracy was a clear demonstration of  what ended up happening with the way of reacting from the

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Hundreds of Thousands of Mexicans March for Democracy

PULSE NEWS MEXICO Starting at about 11 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13, and heading from Mexico City’s Angel of Independence Monument to the Monument to the Revolution, tens of thousands of people marched in defense of democracy and the National Electoral Institution (INE) despite an environmental contingency imposed by the pro-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) capital governor, Claudia Sheinbaum.

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Mexican Democracy in Suspension

By ENRIQUE KRAUZE It was not through some miracle, but rather because thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of generations, that Mexico has, successively, evolved as a theocratic, monarchical, viceroyalty, caudillism, dictatorial, revolutionary, revolutionary-institutional, and, finally today, a democratic state. Very soon, it may cease to be just that. It is sad, but perhaps understandable, that Mexico’s new generations are

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Coparmex Launches Support Campaign for the INE

By KELIN DILLON Following the news that the Mexican government is set to defund Mexico’s autonomous electoral monitoring body, the National Electoral Institute (INE), by 4.4 billion pesos in 2023, members of the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) launched a campaign from Guadalajara’s Akron Stadium to support the INE – aptly titled “Goal for democracy! #I defend the

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